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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026

I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10/08/2026

Exactly this, except I don’t think it’s cowardice. I think it suits them to persecute a minority marginalised community because that’s how authoritarianism works.

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 30/04/2026

What better way to spend 4 minutes and 45 seconds of your day/life than watching 'DUCKS'? (please do not answer this) 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vZ... #animation #art #shortfilm #short #ducks #dfdb #quaaaack #cgi

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DUCKS | Award Winning Animated Short Film (2025)

YouTube video by AJ Jefferies

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

On legitimising yet another pogrom.

Some prefer to step two degrees away from the above conclusion, blaming the violence not on one discrete crime, but rather on long-simmering discontent about “unfettered immigration”, to use the words offered by loyalist MP Jim Allister, in the wake of last year’s Ballymena riots. Such riots are appalling, the argument goes, but their anger reflects a legitimate concern; that immigration has simply gone too far.

Again, we risk demeaning ourselves by pointing out that rates of migration into Northern Ireland have never been connected to any rise in crime, and represent a tremendous benefit to the economy, from workers in hospitality and agri-business sectors to manufacturing and academia. Migrants are most beneficial in the health and care sectors, with 22 per cent of carers in the state coming from outside the UK and Ireland, without whom Tracey Reid, chief executive of the Northern Ireland Social Care Council, says the sector “could not survive”. Such statistics are, of course, broadly similar throughout the UK and Ireland, and were regarded as truisms until it became seemingly gauche for any prominent newspaper or politician to repeat them, in favour of contorting gymnastically to flatter the perceptions and prejudices of those who just hate migrants for entirely racist reasons. No matter how much they contribute to society, and no matter how few of them there are.

A compelling argument that this is the case can be found in the demographics of Northern Ireland itself. Its current population is just shy of two million. According to the most recent figures available, net migration in the state between 2001 and 2023 amounted to around 62,000 people, including less than 2,400 refugees in secure accommodation. Ballymena, which until this week had been the most prominent site of anti-immigrant violence in the state, sits in the Mid and East Antrim council area, which has seen fewer than 5,000 international migrants settle there this century. Only 3 per cent of Northern Ireland’s population belong to any ethnic minority at all.

For those of us who find the constant discussion of “the immigration problem” dehumanising and dishonest in any context, it’s revealing to see it deployed in places where immigration barely exists, not least for what it might suggest about such legitimate concerns everywhere else. We are left to presume that any number of non-white faces, no matter how few, is a salient enough horror for locals that their concerns become legitimised automatically. Even one, it would seem, is one too many.

Most confusing of all has been the near-total absence of any context regarding who, exactly, is committing all this violence. The reluctance among media outlets to specify that these pogroms are the work of far-right loyalist gangs is particularly odd, given that such groups are fond of signing their work. The LVF, and associated gangs, have for decades sprayed their tags on the houses of the people they burn out, whether Catholics, economic migrants or refugees. Even now their graffiti proudly adorns walls and estates, demanding they be reserved for “locals only”. I’m old enough to remember when the LVF attacked the specially modified home of a severely disabled child because his family was insufficiently Protestant. I’m old enough to remember it because it happened less than two years ago.

When loyalist gangs burned Catholic families out of their homes in past years, there were few stern and sombre pleas that we should understand the arsonists’ concerns. Nor was there a reflexive jolt to place such acts in a context the perpetrators themselves might have liked, perhaps by drawing direct links between their violent acts and the existence of alleged crimes committed by disconnected Catholics many miles away. That this same logic is no longer applied to vast acts of violence against dozens of non-white people of all nationalities in Belfast, purportedly due to the actions of a single man from Sudan, is as preposterous as it is repulsive.

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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Of course I drew the whistling potato. #art #potato

Doodle of a potato in a microwave oven, doing a little whistle

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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

Daily Mail Headline:

Pupils' drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools - while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam

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STP Guy @stpguy3.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

BREAKING NEWS in the world of Sticky Toffee Puddings

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 22/02/2026

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I've been singing this to myself all day

Brian Lyman:
🎶It's time to question methods
It's time for petty fights🎶

Adam Rothman:
🎶It's time to meet the experts on the plenary tonight🎶

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Need a distraction from the 24-hour news cycle? Check out "Balloon Dog Anatomy" by the great Jason Freeny.

A balloon dog, but transparent so you can see the "skeleton" within.

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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Amazing article, 2 thoughts 1) absolute cosmic horror fuel (as per Ethan’s note) 2) they gave it to mice. Did the mice see mouse-sized people or even tinier mice?

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Thrilled by the response to my first novel being announced. For those wondering, you can PRE-ORDER at the below links! Amazon UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Dogs-Street-... Amazon US: www.amazon.com/Prestige-Dra... Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brig... Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/prestig...

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Spooky Teddy Meatballs @leftbanksy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A little joy to palate cleanse the tl

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Absolutely delighted to actually be paying enough attention this X-Files rewatch to realise that Law & Order and The X-Files are same universe lol

Appallingly blurry shot of Detective Munch from Homicide: Life on the Streets and Law & Order: SVU appearing in an episode of the X-Files. A thin rangy older gent with big ears, glasses, coming into an interrogation room introducing himself as the person being interrogated asks "did they find her?"

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

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Holly Green @winnersusedrugs.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

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eмoтιonal ѕυpporт dιva 💁🏽 @kvngxziz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

This is a production. 10/10 😭😭😭 THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Katarina Hunt @katarinahunt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa and Elga Mark-Kurik on Kreuzritter lake (Kryzhiuochiu ezheras), under an umbrella, north of Vilnius,Lithuania, 1977 (photo H.-P. Schultze).

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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 27/10/2025

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre

Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast)

Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Andrew O'Neill @andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Physio: have you got a band? Me: yeah it’s kind of early 80s thrash, but more sort of crusty… Cold War themed! We’re actually playing on Thursday. Physio:

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Hugh Bonneville took advantage of a live TV interview at the premiere for DowntonAbbeyTheGrandFinale to make a statement about Gaza. Watch the face of ITV News reporter Helen Keenan drop as he *goes there

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Let’s be honest. Carswell is not alone. You don’t tweet unless you know it’s a popular belief. There are many in public roles, in pubs and at dinner tables who believe this. This is a persecution of Muslims in the UK and anyone with any sense of humanity, who cares about Britain must call this out .

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998.
The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.

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Natasha @nluepke.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

Picture of a tweet from user Ebert, @horsedivorce.

me: can you dust my wets?

server: can you just ask for Parmesan cheese

me, confused, lifts all of my spaghetti with my hands: please. My wets.

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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

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Jenna @jennaonthenet.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

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